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A new analysis concludes that the answer is not as clear as you might think.
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Meet the chief of staff who helped make San Francisco International Airport a leader in sustainability.
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ConAgra Foods dramatically cut its water and energy consumption last year, thanks to proactive employees.
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With just eight years remaining for Interface to reach its target of zero environmental footprint by 2020, it's clear that there's no more low-hanging fruit. How does a company adapt to a "tall canopy" landscape?
by Nadine Gudz
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Hospitality giant reveals how staff training and carbon bonuses are helping to cut energy use and slash emissions.
by James Murray
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The head of the world's largest office furniture supplier talks about challenges in making non-toxic furniture, end of life options for the 'Think Chair,' and his vision for increasingly virtual, mobile work places.
by Heather King
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The annual Commuter Pain study from IBM, which looks at commutes in 20 cities across the globe, finds that public transit use is up and traffic is somewhat down, but commuters are still highly stressed out about their daily grinds.
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The Carbon Disclosure Project's Paul Dickinson offers advice on how companies can deploy broadband technologies for telework.
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The company's 15 goals embrace everything from advancing global health through medical innovation to pushing sustainability through its supply chain; among its other goals are a 20 percent emissions reduction by 2015.
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National Telework Week 2011 saw nearly 40,000 employees work from home, boosting productivity and saving workers and companies costs; the number of remote workers is on the rise, according to a study from the week.
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Green power, low-carbon employee commuting and energy efficiency are helping the business software giant shrink its carbon footprint.
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Nearly half a million workers in the Peach State already telework occasionally, but the state's new weeklong celebration of remote work aims to add another quarter-million to the list, and save companies time and money to boot.
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U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to promote greener employee commuting habits, reduced business travel and other measures to scale back indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent by 2020.
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The country's environment watchdog has become the first government-backed body to call a halt to domestic flights when a lower-carbon option is available, as a way to reduce its greenhouse gas footprint.
by James Murray
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"The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability" makes the business case for why companies should be rethinking their corporate structures, processes and performance, while also offering advice and case studies of how companies are putting these practices to work.
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General Electric Company, the PG&E Corporation and Tnt Nv, an international express and mail delivery service based in the Netherlands, rank first, second and third place respectively on Corporate Knights magazine's sixth annual Global 100 list of most sustainable firms.
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Increasing imbalance is looming between our eagerness for energy efficiency and our nonchalance for inclusion of human factors and the impact that our energy efficiency measures will have on human health.
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The 41-story Marathon Oil Tower has been designated as a BOMA 360 Performance Building for its wide-ranging best practices in areas that include energy, water and waste management as well as green purchasing, life safety and tenant relations.
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We have all seen the numbers. If we're serious about reducing the environmental impact of buildings, addressing energy independence, using renewable energy resources, conserving water and slowing waste streams, we must make greening existing buildings a greater priority. <br />
by Ari Kobb
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A global closed-loop reverse supply chain has enabled Cisco to collect nearly 24 million pounds of returned electronic equipment, more than 99 percent of which was recycled or reused. Meanwhile, using its own technoologies such as Telepresence helped the company reduce its U.S. operational emissions in fiscal year 2009 by a whopping 40 percent below 2007 levels.
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Baxter International employees in 25 countries ventured out into their communities this summer to plant gardens and gathered internally to learn about the ways in which they could lighten their environmental footprints. <br />
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Two new reports on the impacts of moving to a low-carbon economy show putting money toward energy efficiency, building retrofits and renewable energy projects can create 1.7 million new jobs, significantly more than the same investment in fossil fuel industries.